Beyond Cairo: US Engagement with the Muslim World by Darrell Ezell

By Darrell Ezell

The US's once-enthusiastic dedication to revive reliable family with the Muslim international has faded significantly for the reason that Obama's 2009 Cairo speech. This e-book tackles Washington's lagging engagement with the Muslim global and gives a roadmap for the way the united states can use public international relations to re-engage it.

Taking the fabric on info know-how (IT) contained in an prior nationwide Academies file titled Making the state more secure: The position of technology and expertise in Countering Terrorism as some extent of departure and penned via a similar panel that formulated that component of the file, this spin-off document examines the function of IT as a part of the nationwide infrastructure; indicates vital parts of study corresponding to details and community safety, IT for emergency reaction, and knowledge fusion; and gives strategies for a way to spur such examine"

In the final 30 years, the genomes of hundreds of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to micro organism, to people, were sequenced or in part sequenced and deposited in databases freely obtainable to scientists world wide. this data is accelerating scientists' skill to struggle disorder and make different clinical advances, yet policymakers needs to think about the chance that the knowledge may be used for harmful reasons in acts of bioterrorism or conflict.

This study confirms that, whereas many spouses of army carrier contributors paintings and search schooling just like their "look-alike" civilian opposite numbers, they generally lag those equals when it comes to discovering jobs and receiving related pay. in response to the enter of greater than 1,100 army spouses bearing on their employment and academic goals in addition to different info research, the RAND researchers supply ideas for the dep. of safety to enhance quality-of-life matters for its individuals and spouses, which in the end might help the dept hold the certified body of workers it wishes.

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As the foundational elements of public diplomacy focus on promoting broad opportunities that are inclusive, it is evident why failure occurred, and how post-9/11 public diplomacy is regarded as paradoxical, due especially to: (i) America’s adverse foreign policy in the Arab and larger Muslim world, (ii) the State Department’s application of one-sided messaging attempts that overlapped public diplomacy with nation branding, and (iii) discounting the role of religion and culture when analyzing the social terrain of Muslim majority nations.

15 Over the last decade, the concentration of American foreign policy to curb Islamic anxiety—that leads to terrorism and asymmetrical warfare —was led by the Bush administration’s commitment to promoting democratization. Committed to the democratic peace thesis, the Bush White House and State Department built its argument on their right to enter Iraq upon the conception that liberal democratic states generally show restraint in their relationship with other democracies and they should stand together against authoritarian states—though several limitations to this argument exist.

24 James Madison, writing in The Federalist Papers on the need to safeguard the Union against domestic terrorism, emphasized the ills that corroded European society throughout the seventeenth century. 25 Further, in 1779, with the support of fellow statesmen, Thomas Jefferson made this case against state-supported religion in the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (passed in 1786). This pre-Constitutional act served as a clause supporting religious tolerance, giving freedom to all Virginians to practice the religious denomination of their choice.